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Automatically verifying rumorous information has become an important and challenging task in natural language processing and social media analytics. Previous studies reveal that people's stances towards rumorous messages can provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Penghui Wei , Nan Xu , Wenji Mao

Stance detection is a critical component of rumour and fake news identification. It involves the extraction of the stance a particular author takes related to a given claim, both expressed in text. This paper investigates stance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Nikita Lozhnikov , Leon Derczynski , Manuel Mazzara

Stance Detection is concerned with identifying the attitudes expressed by an author towards a target of interest. This task spans a variety of domains ranging from social media opinion identification to detecting the stance for a legal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Erik Arakelyan , Arnav Arora , Isabelle Augenstein

Real-world information, often multimodal, can be misinformed or potentially misleading due to factual errors, outdated claims, missing context, misinterpretation, and more. Such "misinformation" is understudied, challenging to address, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xinyi Zhou , Ashish Sharma , Amy X. Zhang , Tim Althoff

Misinformation and disinformation are growing threats in the digital age, affecting people across languages and borders. However, no research has investigated the prevalence of multilingual misinformation and quantified the extent to which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Dorian Quelle , Calvin Cheng , Alexandre Bovet , Scott A. Hale

Responding to the increasing need for automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems to assess language use beyond lexis and grammar (Burstein et al., 2016), we introduce a new approach to identify rhetorical features of stance in academic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Masaki Eguchi , Kristopher Kyle

The rapid spread of misinformation through social media platforms has raised concerns regarding its impact on public opinion. While misinformation is prevalent in other languages, the majority of research in this field has concentrated on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Recep Firat Cekinel , Pinar Karagoz , Cagri Coltekin

Claim span identification (CSI) is an important step in fact-checking pipelines, aiming to identify text segments that contain a checkworthy claim or assertion in a social media post. Despite its importance to journalists and human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Shubham Mittal , Megha Sundriyal , Preslav Nakov

Understanding attitudes expressed in texts, also known as stance detection, plays an important role in systems for detecting false information online, be it misinformation (unintentionally false) or disinformation (intentionally false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Momchil Hardalov , Arnav Arora , Preslav Nakov , Isabelle Augenstein

Fact checking is an essential challenge when combating fake news. Identifying documents that agree or disagree with a particular statement (claim) is a core task in this process. In this context, stance detection aims at identifying the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Arjun Roy , Pavlos Fafalios , Asif Ekbal , Xiaofei Zhu , Stefan Dietze

False information has a significant negative influence on individuals as well as on the whole society. Especially in the current COVID-19 era, we witness an unprecedented growth of medical misinformation. To help tackle this problem with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ivan Srba , Branislav Pecher , Matus Tomlein , Robert Moro , Elena Stefancova , Jakub Simko , Maria Bielikova

In recent years, the problem of misinformation on the web has become widespread across languages, countries, and various social media platforms. Although there has been much work on automated fake news detection, the role of images and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Abdul Sittar , Eric Müller-Budack , Christian Otto , Ralph Ewerth

Conversational prompt-engineering-based large language models (LLMs) have enabled targeted control over the output creation, enhancing versatility, adaptability and adhoc retrieval. From another perspective, digital misinformation has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Dahlia Shehata , Robin Cohen , Charles Clarke

Rumour stance classification, the task that determines if each tweet in a collection discussing a rumour is supporting, denying, questioning or simply commenting on the rumour, has been attracting substantial interest. Here we introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Arkaitz Zubiaga , Elena Kochkina , Maria Liakata , Rob Procter , Michal Lukasik

The goal of stance detection is to determine the viewpoint expressed in a piece of text towards a target. These viewpoints or contexts are often expressed in many different languages depending on the user and the platform, which can be a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Momchil Hardalov , Arnav Arora , Preslav Nakov , Isabelle Augenstein

This paper describes team Turing's submission to SemEval 2017 RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours (SemEval 2017 Task 8, Subtask A). Subtask A addresses the challenge of rumour stance classification, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Elena Kochkina , Maria Liakata , Isabelle Augenstein

Stance detection entails ascertaining the position of a user towards a target, such as an entity, topic, or claim. Recent work that employs unsupervised classification has shown that performing stance detection on vocal Twitter users, who…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Younes Samih , Kareem Darwish

The spreading COVID-19 misinformation over social media already draws the attention of many researchers. According to Google Scholar, about 26000 COVID-19 related misinformation studies have been published to date. Most of these studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Ye Jiang , Xingyi Song , Carolina Scarton , Ahmet Aker , Kalina Bontcheva

The rapid spread of online disinformation presents a global challenge, and machine learning has been widely explored as a potential solution. However, multilingual settings and low-resource languages are often neglected in this field. To…

The growing influence of video content as a medium for communication and misinformation underscores the urgent need for effective tools to analyze claims in multilingual and multi-topic settings. Existing efforts in misinformation detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Patrick Giedemann , Pius von Däniken , Jan Deriu , Alvaro Rodrigo , Anselmo Peñas , Mark Cieliebak